Jonathan Chait: If Republicans Win The House They’ll Impeach Obama

Posted by | October 13, 2010 17:29 | Filed under: Top Stories


The New Republic‘s Jonathan Chait believes that if Republicans win the House they’ll impeach President Obama.

Wait, you say. What will they impeach him over? You can always find something. Mini-scandals break out regularly in Washington. Last spring, the political press erupted in a frenzy over the news that the White House had floated a potential job to prospective Senate candidate Joe Sestak. On a scale of one to 100, with one representing presidential jaywalking and 100 representing Watergate, the Sestak job offer probably rated about a 1.5. Yet it was enough that GOP Representative Darrell Issa called the incident an impeachable offense.

It is safe to say that Issa’s threshold of what constitutes an impeachable offense is not terribly high. As it happens, should Republicans win control of the House, Issa would bring his hair-trigger finger to the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Keep your eyes on Issa (pictured).

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